Getting it wrong in Papua New Guinea.(The Pacific)

Quadrant | December 1, 2006| | Copyright

IN DAYS OF OLD in Papua New Guinea, white men were generally addressed by non-English-speaking Papua New Guineans as "masta". Today this honorific is infrequently heard; where a foreigner is known well, his first name is universally used. Where there is no bond of familiarity; say, in a shop or a taxi, a Tok Pisin speaker is likely to address a foreign man as "boss", although "mate" is also widely used in application to those obviously of Australian or New Zealand origin.

In the 1980s, a time when foreign personnel were being rapidly replaced with locals as managers ...

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